KJV ORIGINAL
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
The count of men from the tribe of Ephraim came to forty thousand five hundred.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that 40,500 fighting men were counted from the tribe of Ephraim during Israel's first census in the wilderness.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of the first census Moses conducted of the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai, about a year after they left Egypt. The census was specifically counting men aged 20 and older who were able to go to war, as God was preparing the nation for military campaigns. Ephraim was one of Joseph's two sons who became tribal leaders, and this tribe would later become very prominent in Israel's history.
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